Communications of the ACM
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April 2016
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Embedding Ethical Principles in Collective Decision Support Systems
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Francesca Rossi from the University of Padova. Rossi and her colleagues Joshua Greene (Harvard University), John Tasioulas (King’s College London), Kristen Brent Venable (Tulane University)…
From Schneier on Security
IBM Officially Owns Resilient Systems
It's officially final; IBM has "completed the acquisition" of Resilient Systems, Inc. We are now "Resilient: an IBM Company." As I expected when I announced this acquisition, I am staying on as the CTO of Resilient and something…
From insideHPC
Live Report from LUG 2016 Day 1
"The Lustre User Group (LUG) 2016 conference is well under way. The morning of the first day was spent on looking at Lustre today and tomorrow and security developments in the code. Peter Jones and Andreas Dilger described what…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Launches Total Solution for Lustre on ZFS
“With Supermicro’s 90 top-load 3.5” hot-swap bay JBOD as the storage core of our Lustre Pod Cluster, we maximize performance, density and capacity and simplify serviceability for massive scale HA storage deployments. Combining…
From insideHPC
University of Michigan Looks to OpenPOWER for HPC
The University of Michigan is collaborating with IBM to develop and deliver “data-centric” supercomputing systems designed to increase the pace of scientific discovery in fields as diverse as aircraft and rocket engine design…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Camera Live Streams VR
Quite an impressive capability. In Mashable. New levels of real time immersion. Imagine the complexity of the editing.
From insideHPC
OpenPOWER Teams with Open Compute Project for the Datacenter
Today the OpenPOWER Foundation announced more than 50 new open innovations to help companies better solve grand challenges around big data. Many new community innovations unveiled today adhere to the Open Compute Project reference…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Acting like Walmart
Is Amazon acting like Walmart in the 80s? In Retaillink:" ... Amazon's investments in trucks, planes, cargo boats and drones continue to drive speculation on whether the company is building a full-scale delivery platform. But…
From Schneier on Security
CONIKS
CONIKS is an new easy-to-use transparent key-management system: CONIKS is a key management system for end users capable of integration in end-to-end secure communication services. The main idea is that users should not have to…
From Phys.org Technology News
Worrying about smart phone web-dependence anxiety
The more we rely on our smart phones being connected to the Internet, the greater the anxiety we feel if we lose that connection when travelling, according to new research published in the International Journal of Information…
From Phys.org Technology News
Explainer: What is a dirty bomb and how dangerous is it?
The worrying news that individuals affiliated with the so-called Islamic State have undertaken hostile surveillance at a Belgian nuclear research facility has created growing speculation about the group's nuclear ambitions.
From insideHPC
Register Now for SC16 Housing in Salt Lake City
Housing registration is now open for SC16 in Salt Lake City, Utah. As the world's largest gathering of supercomputing professionals, the event takes place November 14-17.
The post Register Now for SC16 Housing in Salt Lake City…From insideHPC
Huawei HPC Coming to Bibliotheca Alexandrina Egypt
Today Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina library announced plans to build an HPC platform using Huawei technologies. Based on high-density FusionServer servers, the 118 Teraflop Huawei cluster employs high-speed InfiniBand and 288…
From Phys.org Technology News
Many hurdles preventing emergence of online voting
The search for solutions to increase voter numbers on Election Day continues as states rack up underwhelming turnouts in both presidential and non-presidential election years.
From insideHPC
CSCS to Double Performance of Cray Supercomputer with GPUs
Europe’s most powerful supercomputer Piz Daint is being upgraded, a move that is expected to at least double its computing power. ETH Zurich is investing around CHF 40 million to allow researchers to perform simulations, data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inside the HoloLens Hardware
A much anticipated hardware technical look inside the MS Hololens, their virtual reality system and headset. This is a hardware technical overview. To me the inclusion of depth perception and 'spatial sound' were particularly…
From insideHPC
Gary Grider Presents: HPC Storage and IO Trends and Workflows
"Trends in computer memory/storage technology are in flux perhaps more so now than in the last two decades. Economic analysis of HPC storage hierarchies has led to new tiers of storage being added to the next fleet of supercomputers…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Brackets Project
Inspiration for projects come from everywhere. Today there was a lot of talk about “March Madness” or the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament. It got me thinking about how to write a program to fill out a bracket. Since I have been…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Natural Language Access to Data: Where Reasoning Makes Sense
Looks to be a good talk .... " ... Cognitive Systems Institute Group Speaker Series on Thursday April 7, 2016 at 10:30 am ET US (7:30 am PT US). Our presenter this week is Richard Waldinger from SRI International who will be…
From Apophenia
Where Do We Find Ethics?
I was in elementary school, watching the TV live, when the Challenger exploded. My classmates and I were stunned and confused by what we saw. With the logic of a 9-year-old, I wrote a report on O-rings, trying desperately to…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
DRAFT 2016 CSTA K-12 CS Standards: We Need Your Feedback—Again!
Much excitement and activity continues to take place in the K-12 Computer Science Education space. The K-12 Computer Science Framework and the Computer Science for All initiative started by the White House both continue to evolve…
From insideHPC
Nvidia Launches Tesla P100 Hyperscale Accelerator
"Our greatest scientific and technical challenges -- finding cures for cancer, understanding climate change, building intelligent machines -- require a near-infinite amount of computing performance," said Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO …
From Phys.org Technology News
MLB approves wearable technology
Wearable technology is coming to Major League Baseball.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Learn from Insects
Have heard relatively little about genetic methods lately, here as a means of adapting initial descriptive solutions. Worth considering to achieve some process optimization in complex situtations. In CACM: " ... Paris Diderot…
From insideHPC
Seagate Adopts Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre
Today Seagate announced it will incorporate Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre (IEEL), a big data software platform, into its market-leading ClusterStor storage architecture for high-performance computing. The move will strengthen…
From insideHPC
Announcing the ISC Student Cluster Competition Alumni Network
Today the ISC Group, organizers of the annual ISC High Performance conference, is pleased to announce the launch of the ISC Student Cluster Competition (SCC) Alumni Network. Maintained and managed via LinkedIn, the professional…
From insideHPC
Allinea Speeds Tomorrow’s Meteorological Code
Allinea Software reports that the company is helping weather and climate researchers to adapt advanced weather models to better exploit today’s technology capability and get ready for future platforms. The company will address…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Northeast Big Data Hub – Call for Proposals
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has launched a program on Industry-Academic Collaboration through the Big Data Regional Hubs. The Northeast Hub, coordinated by Columbia University, is pleased to issue a call for proposals…
From insideHPC
Video: HPC and Hyperscale Trends for 2016
Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "Based on updated research studies, Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research will present on forward-looking topics for HPC and Hyperscale…
From Schneier on Security
WhatsApp is Now End-to-End Encrypted
WhatsApp is now end-to-end encrypted....